Meteorology category: 1039 books
Land Use and the Carbon Cycle
Advances in Integrated Science, Management, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and how land management can be used to mitigate their effects. This book brings...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not?
This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties...
by Qing-Bin Lu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work including significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as the discovery of...
Global Change and Regional Impacts
Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use...
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources – bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy – as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The work addresses the following questions in the context of interglacial climate dynamics: (i) What are the amplitudes of natural climate variations on timescales of several years to millennia? (ii) Do abrupt changes in the large-scale circulation of the Atlantic Ocean occur in interglacials? (iii)...
by S. Rodionov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water both in area and volume. Its drainage area is approximately 3. 5 million square kilometers, extending 2500 km in length, 35°N to 600N, and on average 1000 km wide, 400E 0 to 60E (Fig. 1). Located in a large continental depression about 27...
by Andrzej Kobryń
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This book provides concise descriptions of thevarious solutions of transition curves, which can be used in geometric design of roads and highways. It presents mathematical methods and curvature functions for defining transition curves.
by Yiqun Tang, Jie Zhou, Ping Yang
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Integrating information from several areas of engineering geology, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, this book addresses the general field of groundwater from an engineering perspective. It covers geological engineering as well as hydrogeological and environmental geological problems caused...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. The book is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation;...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
It is now widely recognized that the climate system is governed by nonlinear, multi-scale processes, whereby memory effects and stochastic forcing by fast processes, such as weather and convective systems, can induce regime behavior. Motivated by present difficulties in understanding the climate system...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Ten unique government reports document the history of attempted weather and climate modification efforts, including Defense Department projections of future programs and a detailed history of Project Stormfury and related hurricane modification trials. Contents: A Recommended National Program In Weather...
by Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, Gaurav Srivastava
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book provides detailed analysis methods and design guidelines for fire resistance, a vital consideration for offshore processing and production platforms. Recent advancements in the selection of various geometric structural forms for deep-water oil exploration and production require a detailed...
Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume 2, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems ITITS 2015, held December 12-13, 2015, Xi’an China
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
This volume includes the proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITITS 2015) which was held in Xi’an on December 12-13, 2015. The conference provided a platform for all professionals and researchers from industry and academia...